TAKE THE FIFTH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Refuse to testify by invoking the Fifth Amendment, which states that nobody may be forced to testify as a witness against himself or herself

Synonyms:

take the Fifth; take the Fifth Amendment

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "take the Fifth" is one way to...):

declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s